Impressionism · 1872
Claude Monet 1840–1926
Musée Marmottan Monet · Paris
A hazy orange sun over the harbour of Le Havre — the loose sketch whose title gave Impressionism its name.
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You are looking at the painting that gave Impressionism its name. Monet stood at his hotel window in Le Havre on a cold January morning in 1872 and refused to paint what he knew — he painted what he felt. When a critic borrowed his title to mock the movement in 1874, the artists kept it as a badge of honour.
That defiance changed painting forever.
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